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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/27/this-week-in-kde-apps
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If I’m thinking of it correctly, this addition:

Elisa Play local music and listen to online radio
Files will play automatically when opened from a different app (e.g. Dolphin). (Pedro Nishiyama, 25.04.0. Link)

will help with a new user papercut when Elisa is at the top of the list for preferred applications to open a music file. In that case, folks likely end up with no audio playing and the full library-centric Elisa interface in front of them, wondering what to do…

…or at least that was me back last year :sweat_smile:

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Excuse me, when will you guys learn the alphabet :wink: :blush: ?

It’s annoying for the readers just glancing over the apps to see what might be interesting.
And cumbersome for translators.

@s3nnet it would be more helpful if you explained what you’re referring to. Is it that the apps are not in alphabetical order? I’m not sure if they’re intended to be alphabetical, or if they’re ordered in some other way, or if they just end up in the order they get added.

Alphabetically, exactly. It is pretty inconvieniant currently for people who just want to know if there is news about their favourite app to find. Cf. attached image.


Edit: Sorry, bad example. Yet Kaidan comes after KDE Itinerary… I thibk you get the point

To me it seems dependent on the time and date of the app’s update, like last minute updates cramped in somewhere.

Also, I am not sure if ignoring the KDE prefix (connect, itinerary) is a good idea. This way KDE Itinerary comes AFTER Elisa (because of Itinerary starting with I) which I do not find to be very intuitive.

Maybe you should phrase this more respectfully. Please check our CoC which serves as a guide on how best people should communicate in our forums.

It is pretty inconvenient for people

This is the first complaint regarding this issue we have received, therefore I am not sure the use of the plural here is appropriate.

I’m sorry but not sure what you mean (cramped in? annoying for readers? for translators? not a good idea?).
Anyways, eventually it’s FACTUAL criticism which you can act upon as you see fit.

The way you expressed your criticism was done so in a confrontational way.

It would have been better if you asked:

Would it not help to list the applications you mention in alphabetical order in future issues of this series? Like that, people who just want to know if there is news about their favourite app can find the information easier.

Addressing the content of your criticism: it is a blog post, not a directory, the sections referring to each application are very clearly labelled, making the section a reader would be interested in very easy to locate just by skimming, and there are very few sections per issue anyway. Listing them in alphabetical order hardly seems necessary.

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I am sorry!
I was believing that my double emoji suffix would do the job of indicating my post to be taken with a grain of salt, maybe it was a little too subtle.
Please accept my sincere apologies for that!

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